Tuesday of the Second Week of Easter

I feared eternity as endless gray,
a road that never seemed to bend—
but found it flicker in a flame
that did not strive, yet did not end.

I chased distraction through the day,
to flee the stillness I despised—
until I saw, in lifted Love,
that time itself was baptized.

Eternal is not more of this,
but this made full, and bright, and true—
a single moment set on fire
and filled, O God, with You.

Monday of the Second Week of Easter

The wind knows nothing of my plans,
yet moves me more than all my schemes.
It breaks the branches of my pride
and plants a forest in my dreams.

I chart the sky and name the gust,
pretending I am in command—
but Spirit slips between my fists
like breath I never truly planned.

O let me be a yielded field,
not fortress standing stiff and grim—
for I am most alive, I think,
when I am blown about by Him.

Second Sunday of Easter (or Sunday of Divine Mercy)

Unless I loosen my grip on proof,
I will never hold the miracle.
Unless I spend mercy like rain,
I will die of thirst beside a river.
Unless I trust the wound that bleeds for me,
I will bind my own hands in fear.
But if I dare to live without unless,
I may finally believe without end.

Saturday in the Octave of Easter

I called it sense,
this measured view—
a world contained
in what I knew.

Yet grace broke in
where thought had ceased,
and whispered hope
I had released.

So now I stand,
less sure, yet free—
for faith begins
where I cannot see.

Friday in the Octave of Easter

He met me not
in the thunder’s cry,
but where the morning
meets the sky.

A fire, a meal,
no grand display—
just bread enough
to start the day.

And in that feast
so plain, so small,
I found the grace
that feeds us all.

Thursday in the Octave of Easter

I stood where I thought
all promise had ceased,
where silence had settled
and hope had decreased.

But light broke the pattern
I thought I had known—
and joy stood before me
too vast to be owned.

So I laughed at my limits,
let certainty bend—
for grace had begun
where I thought it would end.

Wednesday in the Octave of Easter

I walked with the truth
yet saw only the road,
heard words of fire
yet felt them not glow.

Till grace, like the sun,
rested soft on my sight—
and the closed place within
gave way to the light.

For hearts do not open
by effort alone—
but by love that persists
till it is known.

Monday in the Octave of Easter

I stumbled on sweetness
I could not contain,
a bloom in the quiet,
a joy without name.

I thought to be silent—
to study, to plan—
but truth has a rhythm
no silence can stand.

So I turned from the flower
and danced my small part—
to announce what I found
in the fields of the heart.

The Resurrection of the Lord

I ran for the dawn,
to be first in the light,
to outrun the shadows
that lingered from night.

But truth does not yield
to the swift or the fast—
it waits in the stillness
that follows the past.

So I stepped into wonder,
no longer to prove—
and found that the first
was the moment I moved.